the week's top stories here on r t superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern u.s. leaving one hundred dead millions cold and at the country's most expensive presidential campaign it's a date to end up in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli while a car bomb was detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced while trying to expose a government of wrongdoing. swastikas fly in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalists emerge in the capital and nationwide aiming to

stir up divisions on the country's day of unity. from moscow this is artsy rule research are highlighting the week's top headlines and while voters in florida are lined up to cast their ballot in early voting those in new york are lining up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water and nearly after a week now since superstorm sandy ripped through his arteries marina port with the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming us presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and

a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response. was the president. is my man. vote for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation from the president i did states has been outstanding president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. they're not going to stop their political campaigning.

before. being very close but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities

and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election and election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. one aspect of the race that's putting many voters off is how hard it is to tell the leading candidates apart from their relationships with the banks to their foreign policy there are striking similarities between the two show off from the socialist equality party says that ballot ultimately lacks a true choice well we enter the election with the understanding that the whole process is fundamentally antidemocratic it's controlled by billions of dollars now and corporate money in the media controlled by corporations and getting on the

ballot is incredibly difficult requiring millions of dollars for the. signatures in every state it's something of a farce and even within this framework of course the choices that are available even you know that within this anti democratic primary or basically agree on everything so even if of course if you had a democratic process between these two candidates american people don't have really do think that choose from in the end the war the attack and democratic rights the bailout of the banks the attack on social programs all of this is really agreed to by both romney and obama. it is accepted as the framework by the media. coverage of the u.s. election that will continue to bring you more angles than you are likely to get anywhere else plus as the campaign hits the home straight and we exclusively bring you the final round of the third party candidates debate starts on monday live from our studios in washington. will two parties keep us politics

a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power parallel. what if america changes trucks u.s. election will close god monday nov fifth on r t. joining us here on r t today a rocket propelled grenade has reportedly struck libya's supreme security committee headquarters in tripoli the attack was followed by sporadic gunfire and clashes live now to our middle east correspondent paula there for the latest on this to see you can you bring us up to speed do we know of at this point who is behind this act of violence. while a gun battle is raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias it is taking place around the libyan security cave courses building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and that they're

ok that solves implanted inside of their phones and also arming themselves with pointed weapons that security building is also makes to the trip elite central hospital and they too there is fear and panic as some of the what it's from this gun battle has the hospital was. part of what about so we are going to start this attack have it it's not the only spate of violence to hit libya today as it. no not at all also on sunday morning there was a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of bengala the seat now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as an actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building to kill or the entrance has been damaged the facade to the building has been talking destroyed and they are in number of shattered windows don't want to this comes a weekend it comes just a few days after the weekend that has seen more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the

eastern parts of libya to be separated we're talking here about roughly half the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil and so they went there are more time to me that one too many to the owner of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since the so-called privileged and i'll still be more of the gadhafi and what the book is these polarized nations of people polarizations in terms of what people want and gun battles on the streets we also know that some weeks now the city of miami when good has the time to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction as government sheikhs battled it out with pro production supporters are parties a policy of thank you. well there's also a terror types to be discussing here in syria that in the heart of the capital shortly we have details of an explosion near a highly secured government buildings and also ahead if you are here on r.t.

. people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses that has to stop at a british man taking banking back to basics looking after his community at a time when the big lenders only look out for themselves. a greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout as r.t. as part of all of our reports the trend in greece is to root out those who reveal wrongdoing rather than the perpetrators themselves. is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens they can't list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more

than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession in our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy reese is governed by corrupt characters who deceived the public claiming they were handling tax evasion . vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. high rates of unemployment we have a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is

poverty and there are there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate quit a mess some of its own members of the constrictions have been opposed to any voice of the opposition and the media restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names but what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they tell the truth and the elites have tried for two whole years to convert me to

evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable. the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights of being a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of us are see. and the editor of daily greece dot net says the revelations couldn't come at a worse time for his country's leaders. journalese bullet this year is going to be in bed together for many years states in good east and going to college it's cool we do crazy c.b.s. did you notice you didn't see the last two years. juries follow we didn't count down today we count very very two thousand and thirteen. the eurogroup were you're a working group the syrian says sure we're waiting for two years extend sure everything is holding their breath and we don't need that i mean the government

does not need any any good relations it's a competition between two pounds of course it will explode. because politics. politicians are important and just as the e.u. desperately strains to keep greece in the bloc more stable members showing signs of may soon what out later tempers pray in london after the e.u. seeks even more cash for us budget champagnes though say it's not worth it and it might be time to bail. some of russia's most radical political groups are out in force this sunday from diehard nationalists to outright fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands have joined marchers chanting against immigration israel islam and while all things foreign r.t.c. cafe off has been watching the crowds right here in central moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for

russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal all laws part of the brush with criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists and that make a trend so it's a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd right now in the permits for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers a lot of force a massive police presence here as well but so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow now we have to keep in mind that this play up swastikas is of course band in russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another

report of about ninety people detained in the urals city if you can see in what are taking part of an authorized nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again a rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of by nationalist lots of sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live and there's a brave person far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway so again a very disturbing story but we'll keep you updated on all the developments here obviously reporting no they also for one british stripped over citizenship for refusing to spawn so we hear from his terrified family in just a few minutes here on august they fear he's now locked up in a u.s. terror a comfort defying it and life. what's

the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because sorts are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes

a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with the pollie and complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. what will change when america picks this president made mostly rage walking the around times road pushing china and russia as occupying hunger spritz to two parties still dictate who their. selections of clothes go right. to the fifty or sixty.

which brightened. from steve. santagati dot com. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today though an explosion has now hit the center of the syrian capital damascus and the blast which state t.v. describes as terrorism took place near heavily guarded military and government buildings regional analysts tell r.t. that those who support radical elements in syria are the ones to blame. there are two sides to this conflict one is the syrian government and that can be held accountable in a simple way the other side is very diffuse and this is this is where the problems

always been that you cannot control all the elements and even if let's say the majority of opposition figures want to participate you have a few spoilers who ruin it and we know by and large who supplying the spoilers you know in this countries like saudi arabia and qatar and turkey now if the international community was serious about a resolution of this conflict or at least helping to defuse the humanitarian element of this conflict which is ostensibly what they argue they would immediately penalize. perhaps even sanction the countries that are providing arms to the rebels who are the spoilers every time there are efforts to. you know bring the parties together and achieve cease fire. and while syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree on a more common platform as they meet in qatar's capital of the gathering that comes amid disturbing revelations of the. the rebel fighters are resorting to while battling the army on the ground

a video surfaced this week depicting what the un described as a potential war crime and apparently shows the rebels are raking in the soldiers they seized at least ten men called dogs by their captors were kicked and beaten before being sprayed down with the president of the arab lawyers association says that are unlikely to be any form of punishment for this for the western world which created the international court of justice does not want to talk parade except when they wish they didn't. it didn't happen in the crimes that were committed in iraq it didn't happen the crimes happened in afghanistan and it is not likely to happen when it is in syria because. look where the western powers in particular made to the usa and france therefore the international justice is not to look into these think specially if one recognizes or remembers

the usa has withdrawn from that agreement or refused to sign the agreement on the contrary it signed multiple agreements with multiple countries that their soldiers would not be subject to the war so i don't think it is likely this is from the political side and i think on the practical side it's all supposed. to identify the project as. a fresh fire exchange on the turkish syrian border this week so i am continuing to beef up its military defenses on its southern front here but turkey's stance on its neighbors civil war got an angry response abroad hundreds of demonstrators gathered emboli and on wednesday this during the turkish prime minister's visit accusing his government of warmongering and of human rights abuses german left wing m.p.'s have embarked on says the people are scared of the consequences that this approach my brain. human rights situation in turkey is very terrible there. over one hundred journalists in prison in turkey there are

over ten thousand political prisoners so therefore the people are fed up with the turkish government coming to europe and talking about integration and human rights but not different human rights in turkey also turkey and the turkish government they are making the escalation politics to what's a war against syria educating al-qaeda militants there educating the food syrian army soldiers ground and passing them weapons and people have a really big fear. against the war against syria or iran that's why they are giving such a reception and protesting the visit of. the us national archives is at the library of record to try finding anything to do with wiki leaks the library of record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you're

searching the archives about anything linked to the whistle blowing web site. frustrating for the see the international space station with your own eyes with a nasa to tell you where the i assess goes flying overhead those details on life. spying wiretapping and rendition seem to be no longer enough for british intelligence agencies in their fight against terror now is allegedly resorting to disowning its own citizens who won't play ball because it is poorly barker reports it's not always terrorists who are taking the four. somali born marty hashi had grown up in the u.k. from the age of five he was a british citizen until this summer when the twenty three year old went missing and his family found out that the home office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved. in islamic extremism his parents are distraught they say

that maddy is an innocent victim of a british intelligence plot because he refused to work for m i five. is that the reasons and believe and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's why he's being victimized this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi worked back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's claimed that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaigners raising awareness for maddie's plight said that the constant threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job. saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know

your the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these overcome tactics that were being used because it's all somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particular security agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing in the summer this summer but i don't know if you know if he lived or died here. we are very worried although all the family the only information the hashi family have now comes from a man who contacted them to say that he'd been in prison with maddie in djibouti and he told us that he had beautiful. d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted to find out that his a petition is in

the conduct of the british consul under british consular see that we have order to move this decision probably and then the americans took him to. somewhere we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at a camp in djibouti and a tourist u.s. anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american rendition program in which suspects are unlawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the allegations are against maddie where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government it has been the point of successive governments neither to confirm or deny. speculation allegations or assertion in respect of

intelligence matters is maintained and accordingly the secretary of state cannot even confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client and by these cases a classic case where profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies within this war on terror have result in an innocent individual helpless young man afraid to be having their life ruined campaigners say that by stripping matty hashi of his passport the british government has effectively washed their hands of his case leaving his family to continue the search for it says about their now stateless son . r t london i thought he was coming to life in the heart of moscow as britain's go to war planes with the persian gulf on its flight plan with employing to iran the backyard has nothing to do with terence nuclear program so they say let's just say we're not quite so sure we tell you why after

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